Ordinary Day

Wow, been a while since my last post. Didn't realize quite how long it'd been. So, let's remedy that.

Where to start, where to start? Last Tuesday night, I told Dave I was putting in my two weeks notice. I was just tired of working there. I wanted out, wanted to change. Lilie had been asserting for a while that I really needed to get out of there, and I agree(d) with her. So finally, I decided to do it. Freddie was getting ready to quit as well - he's moving to Austin to live with Lauren (his girlfriend of a fair amount of time now), so we were contemplating both walking out in the middle of the shift, though we eventually decided against it. So when Dave got back, we had the following conversation:

"Dave, just to let you know, I'm putting in my two weeks notice."
"Oh, why's that Will? Don't like the work anymore?"
"No, the work's fine, the people are all really cool; it's just that you're an egotistical sociopath."

He was pretty quiet after that. Not that I blame him. I mean, I'd been there about four and a half years, never indicated (at least, to him) that I had any problems with him. Of course, he's an incredible idiot who has no idea how much everybody hates him. So I went about my business, still working. I fully intended at that point to continue to work the remainder of my two weeks, though Dave has a tendency to stop scheduling poeple once they've put in their notice. That's only to protect him, as the motiviation to go for that last day or two is very small. Can't really blame him on that count. So yeah, I'm working, it's Tuesday night, we're decently busy. After it slows down, he said that we needed to have a conversation in the back. We went to the dry stock room, and he was like, "So you think I'm egotistical? Damn straight. I'm one of the best in the business; one of the best in the country. And you know why? Because I don't take shit from anybody." (I'm going to ignore the various logical inconsistencies and non sequiters in that sentence. He then followed up with, "And you think I'm a psychopath?" Which is wrong. I said sociopath. Important difference there, but I didn't correct him. he didn't really say anything else, so I started to walk back to the foutain. He then asked me when I wanted my last night to be. I said, "How about tonight?" He said "Sure." I thought he meant 'til close, but about ten minutes later, after another rush, he told me I could leave. Nobody believed me as I was walking out.

I'll get to the aftermath later.